Otaku Outrage over Tsunami Terror
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 1, 2010 18:48 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Chile, DVD Extras, Earthquakes, Full Metal Alchemist, Otaku, TV
Otaku anime viewers have furiously been denouncing TV stations for defiling an entire evening’s worth of anime with massive and highly obtrusive tsunami warnings, expressing particular ire at Winry’s undressing scene being ruined by a superimposed map.
The severity of the tsunami warnings (from the recent Chilean earthquake) varied from station to station, ranging from nothing in areas which couldn’t care less about marine inundation, to the addition of discrete warnings at the end of programmes, and of course to the extreme which has Winry oppai fans so irate: an “L telop,” subtitles and a map in the middle of the screen throughout much of the show, continuing all evening.
Winry survived intact on some stations:
Some fans are particularly incensed about the graphics being taken off for commercial breaks, only to reappear when the show restarts.
Critics point out that people’s lives may be at risk, although whether otaku are actually in any more danger than coast dwellers are from their piddling 90cm tsunami is not clear.
Angry otaku are now demanding affected shows be reaired. Although a few cantankerous old women can cause the censorship massacre of an entire series, it seems likely the protests of mere viewers will be ignored…
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Otaku = A loser who is out of reality.
who cares if people are dying, as long as we get our Anime!!!
lol jk XD
To the people who made the warning ya might wanna rework it a bit
To those who complained I'd have this to say: "Selfish much?"
Hell I like animu and underboobage but c'mon when were not being the greedy bottomfeeders of the food chain in the universe gotta look out for people!
mmmmmm
winry
Are the people who made this warning morons are something? They could've made some kind of bounding box around it, give in more details and graphics on the sides itself.. but instead they said "aw fuck it, we'll just put it in the middle of the screen."
How lazy is That?? or like have a stock reader kinda thing as well.. or put it in the corner.. which would've easily be better.. but no, right in the MIDDLE of the screen.. morons.
Ya, they had control over this. Their solution was retarded.
They could have put that map in the bottom corner and legend beside it not on top of the video.
pic 1 japan is touching her underboob,i mean wtf?
Here's the solution...BUY THE MOTHER****ING DVD!
Geez nothing but whiners. This happens whenever there's severe weather conditions. Since alot of people don't watch TV these days, that's what happened back in the day. Spoiled brats...I swear...
I felt the same way when I found out.A whole evening of anime ruined for a 90cm tsunami?After traveling thousands of miles it's barely a threat because it's so spread out already.
In 1960, one earthquake of magnitude 9,5 it shook Chile. Approximately 22 hours later came to the Japanese littoral waves unleashed by this quake. On Sanriku's coast, in the north of Japan, there were waves of more than three meters that provoked the death of 142 persons. Unfortunately, in that occasion no notice was expressed(emitted) to alert the population. Since the earthquake had happened in another top of the globe, in Japan his consequences were underestimated. The high number of mortal victims took place as result of the ideas preconceived and of the irresponsibility with which the matter took.
mustang the weather man lol
Been waiting to see this FMA bit animated for ages and they paste a country over it! And with my PS3 under lockdown is there anything else to ruin my evening?
tv rips are screwed after this
I really hope there will be another earthquake that magically targets every otaku in japan, killing them instantly.
also agreed.
EPIC OTAKU MEGALOSER FAIL....
AHAHAHA
CENSORED BY JAPAN.
this seems unusually sound now.
We know full well most of the viewers love these shows more than their own lives, so give it a rest! lol
Seriously though, quite absurd for any program unless it was in conjunction with the makers. (a stunt like that would be amazing)
Jesus, Tokyo 8.0...
it seems we hope for a re-airing, or you people just wait for Funimation streams. While here in Asia just wait for Animax's broadcast, and just record it. lolx
lol. Tsunami trolls anime fans.
Pic 003: "Dude, that's a hell of a nasty-looking scar!"
They (and many SC'ers) overstate the "emergency" factor.
A simple shrink-the-picture-slightly-and-add-a-stock-ticker at the bottom with the text, "Tsunami warning: waves to hit Japan in 22 hours. Turn to the Weather Channel for more details" would have been sufficient.
Lazy people who don't want to turn to the Weather Channel take their chances.
There's no justification for program overlays like this.
If the danger is IMMINENT, they should STOP the program, put up a flash bulletin ("Godzilla currently rampaging in Ueno Park. Avoid all Ferris Wheels*. Route 3 is traffic-jammed, with no vehicles moving."), THEN, CONTINUE the program.
*A friend noted that Ferris Wheels are Godzilla bait. She theorized that the reason for Japan having so many of them, frequently in remote areas, is to lure Godzilla away from the more densely-populated areas.
Program Overlays: "Do it for the children!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Blu-Ray sales!"
How long has it been since the last Godzilla attack anyway?
Just another reason to hate the news.
Oh quit complaining! In America they disrupt the entire original feed and relocate to something else.
At least your feed was still there.
What the fuck, Japan had more information than us, the ones that lived the damn earthquake that originated the tsunami alerts there.
It's kinda hilarious.
What The Fail is this
Now everybody please pray to GOD* to have episode reaired (maybe at night hours) without this "warrning" .
*or this guy on the other side of Gate of Truth
Here's a good reason to watch the official English subbed version instead of the fansubs. FUNimation will have this ep up (sans tsunami pic) in a few days for North America, & several other Western countries will have it up on their respective sites as well.
And Eclipse will have it out by Friday without the warning, while they have already released the first version, and a remuxed episode 46 is already online without the warning. Good reason to watch Funi's? Nope, none of that here.
funimation is just retarded...you can attack me all u want but i think most people will agree with me...well not the stupid american anime/porn watching 12 year old kids though
Uhm... Just how dangerous is 90cm tsunami?
About as dangerous as a dickslap.
Back on topic, the warning was irritating but not worth raging over. And it's not like Winry was actually showing much for long. Man if anyone can fap and cum to a 2~3 second scene, might wanna see a doctor.
they obviously put it on a loop to get more time
And the record Guiness
Fapping at the speed of light makes time relative.
Ever heard of the pause button? It makes that 2~3 second scene last forever.
If you live within a few hundred meters of the ocean, and don't live more than a meter or two above sea level, it could affect you. Otherwise, it doesn't do much...as for me, I'm sitting smack dab in the freakin' middle of the major japanese mountain ranges...and I STILL got that obnoxious overlay, though, admittedly, it was only over my weather report...
They should have just had it at the top of the screen just like every other time and every other country does.
How dreadful Tsunami's damage is...
GO FUCK YOURSELVES WITH YOUR LITTLE SHITTY -1 AND EAT MY SHORTS FULL SHIT AND DISEASES SO YOU DIE FASTER!
EPIC LOSER IS EPIC
Woo.. Someone's butthurt..
What a failure.
Like anyone who's watching this program is in danger of leaving his house in the first place.
Watching your AnImEZ undisturbed is surely more important than warning people from lifethreatening danger...
From a potential 90cm of water? In case you thought that was an underexaggeration to make the warning sound less significant, look at the screenshots.
Of course the advertisements are definitely more important than warning people from life threatening danger.
i dont think anyone who watches anime will take that tsunami warning seriously, especially when it disrupted the good scenes...
Wow... storm warnings where I come from aren't nearly as obnoxious as that. The commercial break thing is just the icing on the cake.
"People's lives may be at risk" - but of course the advertising is more important than lives.
If it had been left on during the commercials I could see them being less outraged, but taking the tsunami warning on during the show and taking it off on the commercials is fucking ridiculous.
Actually, they don't have a choice. Here's how it works: They can put any kind of warning during the show, but the advertising time was bought by other companies, so they do not have the right to put anything on the commercial, because it is not theirs. It's common all over the world. The station does not own the ads.
They can put the side information and shrink the screen just not cover the ad.
"They can put any kind of warning during the show, but the advertising time was bought by other companies, so they do not have the right to put anything on the commercial, because it is not theirs."
Isn't that the same with anime though? I thought that anime companies had to pay the stations to use those time slots for their shows the same way that ad companies pay them to air their commercials.
Actually, if it's cable or satellite, the customers pay to see the shows, just as the sponsors pay to have their ads aired.
...but sponsors are more important, otherwise they would't have to cram the programs full of ads on paid for channels in the first place. If you upset the sponsors, you're sunk. If you upset the customers, make an excuse and move on.
"People's lives may be at risk"
Bullshit, you can just refer to a teletext page for warnings. And L-banners are also bullshit, I know not a single person who doesn't hate them.
Is it really that big a deal? I watched that episode of FMA and I almost forgot it was there. Why are otakus always more concerned with style than substance? It's the only way to explain half of these problems.
Because sometimes, the fate of the Elric brothers are more important that a stupid wave that didnt come at all.
Wow... *looks at watch* the typical self-righteous response showed up early today.
Oh yeah? Here's a follow-up: Why don't otaku stop bitching about 2D boobs and get some real boobs that aren't on a screen?
For the warings that are broadcast on moe anime, and thus, only seen by otaku, they should have done things a little differently. Instead of telling them to evacuate, they should have been told to stay in their homes. Or maybe suggest that it's a nice day out maybe you should go swimming? No need to go to a beach though, just walk out your front door, and wait......
Believe me, it's worth 20% of your income, because it usually comes in a package and you get so much more than just boobs. As for silicon boobs? If you can't tell the difference, then, well, that's pretty fail. Hell, you're pretty fail already to want women with silicon boobs in the first place. In any case, I get a discount. To demonstrate, here's my favourite quote from the Vice City police radio: "She was my girlfriend pal, I didn't have to pay for it."
CrabNicholson:
What's your favourite show? Bratz in pedo land? Right.
Lets imagine that there was the face of Rick Astley over everybody's head for the entire show when they finally get to some action.
Would you not be pissed off?
Real boobs? I'm sorry, but 'real' boobs are sharply decreasing in number and getting replaced by 'silicon' boobs.
because real boobs cost 20% of gross income
fucking japanese.. i wished they all died.. no common sense..
you mean the ones who put the tsunami news on, right?
if not, then i wish you died.
"What's your favourite show? Bratz in pedo land? Right."
Stuff like "Bratz in pedo land", k-on, lucky star and the rest are the problems I mentioned in the first comment. It seems like most anime fans are more concerned with seeing Winry's breasts than the series coming to a climax.
Would it be too much to ask for a single nipple shot over 63 episodes?
They could at least put the warning a bit closer to a corner and not in the middle of the screen. Warnings are important but it was placed in a bad spot.
Fail Censorship ? LOL.
90cm = 0.9 meters... approximately 3 feet... people will drown in that.
speaking of that, i remember the red sea in the Bible sinking the Egyptian army, but some say that the red sea is just knee-high in height... >_>
maybe you have some kind of deformed legs 0_o
Uh...the Red Sea is, on average, about 1700 feet deep.
so why they don't put this warning in the commercial breaks?
Every sea has a shore.
Idiot, you do realise that this will flood any dykes/barricades submering any terain under sea level, ontop of that depending on the strength of the winds leaving your home can be downright suicidal.
We need Windy oppai, filter nude, hardcore, and a lot more!
well, wouldn´t be the first suicide in japan....
Can't stop laughing at this ^_^
.....unless your in the Gurren-dan.
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
Winds? Do you even know what a tsunami is?
When I glanced at this article on the main page, my insomnia led me to reading it as "Tsumugi Terror". The light hair didn't help either.
I dont know what am more pissed of about:
That tsunami picture on my Mondays eclipse subs FMA episode or the fact that she never took of that t-shirt...
kinda happy I read the manga.
in which her shirt reaches about the same position yet shows a bit less
Obviously the later.
>=( GIVE ME BACK MY SHITA PAI
>=(
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)=>?
LOL
i never expect ppl to rage over the warnings...
still, this is good LOL material
It was annoying, but not worth raging about. Taking the warnings down for commercial breaks however is moronic. It shows the television stations priority lol, or do they assume nobody is going to watch those anyway?
obviously because it would take forever to edit every single commercial to add it, as opposed to just adding it to one show
So they could edit 22+ minutes of anime, but not 8- minutes of commercials? =/
You don't edit video to do it, the information is an overlay and squeeze into the corner.
RETARDED OTAKUS
Its even more annoying when your whole show is preemted by Obama's speech. AND ITS ON EVERY FRIKKIN CHANNEL.
Or in my case how i raged when 9/11 footage covered up my shows. I was manly pissed about not seeing digimon that week. So yes i understand they're feelings.
I think 9/11 was important enough to disrupt TV
For what reason. I can understand when it happened but for a month we were having shows cut into for "updates". At least my stations did.
yeah, i remember that.
>I was manly pissed about not seeing digimon that week.
Good troll, sir.